Gates Foundation contributes data to OpenAPC


The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 - 2024 period.

The Foundation provides funding for OA fees in accordance with their Open Access policy and has kindly provided data on those expenditures to OpenAPC.

Contact person for the data at Gates Foundation is Ashley Farley.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 9,170 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 23 865 243€ and the average fee is 2 603€.

The following table provides an overwiew:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 2890 8979994 3107
Springer Nature 2048 5483544 2678
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1437 2736642 1904
Frontiers Media SA 866 2118559 2446
Wiley-Blackwell 773 2094042 2709
MDPI AG 719 1296505 1803
Oxford University Press (OUP) 664 2020111 3042
BMJ 593 1610227 2715
F1000 Research, Ltd. 388 363531 937
American Chemical Society (ACS) 288 726852 2524
Informa UK Limited 242 516668 2135
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 196 489457 2497
International Global Health Society 119 197061 1656
American Society for Microbiology 115 298980 2600
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 109 283081 2597
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 103 391727 3803
American Society for Nutrition 102 311892 3058
SAGE Publications 53 106711 2013
American Medical Association (AMA) 52 160723 3091
JMIR Publications Inc. 47 96147 2046
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 47 171650 3652
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 35 80596 2303
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 34 122701 3609
Scientific Societies 32 82713 2585
Crop Science Society of America 23 36950 1607
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 20 35618 1781
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 18 43514 2417
IEEE 18 28545 1586
IWA Publishing 17 26580 1564
Academic Journals 16 6682 418
American Society for Clinical Investigation 14 54344 3882
IOP Publishing 14 26766 1912
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 14 37154 2654
Microbiology Society 13 25272 1944
The Royal Society 13 26379 2029
Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd 11 7355 669
Genetics Society of America 10 18370 1837
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 9 23834 2648
Rockefeller University Press 9 39084 4343
Wageningen Academic Publishers 9 14135 1571
American Astronomical Society 8 16623 2078
Health Affairs (Project Hope) 8 29385 3673
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 7 10805 1544
CSIRO Publishing 7 16236 2320
MyJove Corporation 6 17461 2910
S. Karger AG 6 18479 3080
American Dairy Science Association 5 15573 3115
Canadian Center of Science and Education 5 1520 304
EMBO 5 20673 4135
Emerald 5 9134 1827
Future Medicine Ltd 5 5517 1103
PeerJ 5 5809 1162
Practical Action Publishing 5 4884 977
The American Association of Immunologists 5 11115 2223
The Endocrine Society 5 12537 2507
BioScientifica 4 7649 1912
Brill 4 6790 1698
Duke University Press 4 9843 2461
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development 3 802 267
American Thoracic Society 3 4833 1611
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 3 8399 2800
Guttmacher Institute 3 6588 2196
International Association for Food Protection 3 8119 2706
OMICS Publishing Group 3 3688 1229
Science Alert 3 1049 350
The Company of Biologists 3 10118 3373
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 3 3665 1222
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 3 5679 1893
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2 7464 3732
American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2 1805 903
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 4769 2385
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2 3211 1605
Annual Reviews 2 8631 4316
AOSIS 2 2065 1032
ASME International 2 5217 2608
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2 3687 1844
Copernicus GmbH 2 3161 1580
FapUNIFESP (SciELO) 2 453 226
Fortune Journals 2 3753 1877
Future Science, LTD 2 3537 1768
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2 3631 1815
IGI Global 2 2611 1305
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2 1883 941
Intellect 2 2128 1064
Japanese Society of Animal Reproduction 2 2853 1426
Maad Rayan Publishing Company 2 1422 711
MIT Press - Journals 2 4411 2206
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 2 6385 3192
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 3661 1830
PAGEPress Publications 2 465 233
Pan African Medical Journal 2 319 159
Science Publishing Group 2 471 235
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 2 1016 508
Southern Cross Publishing 2 729 364
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 1873 1873
AIP Publishing 1 1903 1903
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 2516 2516
American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) 1 2843 2843
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 246 246
American Meteorological Society 1 916 916
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1 1778 1778
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 1 5857 5857
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) 1 3420 3420
Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology 1 196 196
Austin Publishing Group 1 840 840
Biomedical Research Network, LLC 1 421 421
Bouti Publishing 1 231 231
Bristol University Press 1 1270 1270
ClinMed International Library 1 1269 1269
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1137 1137
De Gruyter 1 1274 1274
Edinburgh University Press 1 1137 1137
Enviro Research Publishers 1 324 324
FASEB 1 2121 2121
Fundacao Faculdade de Medicina 1 1318 1318
Global Health and Education Projects, Inc. (GHEP) 1 530 530
Herald Scholarly Open Access 1 1206 1206
Hipatia Press 1 438 438
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 2661 2661
IMR Press 1 2378 2378
Inderscience Publishers 1 2179 2179
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 1275 1275
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 1 269 269
Mark Allen Group 1 833 833
National Inquiry Services Center (NISC) 1 2632 2632
Portland Press Ltd. 1 3027 3027
Rynnye Lyan Resources 1 211 211
Sci Forschen, Inc. 1 671 671
Sciencedomain International 1 59 59
SciRes Literature LLC 1 1523 1523
SNF Swedish Nutrition Foundation 1 1797 1797
Society for Sociological Science 1 584 584
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 1 1371 1371
Swansea University 1 969 969
The Electrochemical Society 1 213 213
Universitas Jenderal Soedirman 1 85 85
University of Chicago Press 1 4368 4368
University of Wisconsin Press 1 2062 2062
UNS Solo 1 206 206
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 1 2108 2108

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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